Re : Your questions about Hellfest!

Thanks Jeff. may be stretching your responsibility a bit but can you provide locations to buy/rent camping equipment in clisson/nantes? a friend from germany is coming over on the train and wants to get stuff locally.

Re : Your questions about Hellfest!

Re : Your questions about Hellfest!

@Carrion: Your friend will find tents at Leclerc supermarket. There is also a "Sport 2000" (sport supermarket) on the other side of the street (near of the McDonald and Leclerc). He could find the best prices at Decathlon but we don't have anyone in Clisson and they're far of Nantes Train station... imo he shouldn't bother to find one and just focus on the shops in Clisson.

Re : Your questions about Hellfest!

Re : Your questions about Hellfest!

Hey,

Last night I booked flights from England for the festival to go to Hellfest for the third year running.

Immediately I then went to book the tickets for the festival. There was no message on the main-site saying that it was "sold out". I repeatedly tried to book digitickets but it kept saying there was "an error with Paypal" or "check the bank card information you entered".

This morning, I tried again and I see that the website now states that three day tickets are "sold out"!!

Jeff, can you confirm that more tickets will definitely be released (at a different price) for sale from the Hellfest Website in January?

I hope that it is not the case that ALL 3-day tickets for the festival are sold out now and that it is therefore too late for me to buy tickets. If so, me and my friend have wasted money on air flights!!!

Re : Your questions about Hellfest!

Re : Your questions about Hellfest!

hey guys! i wonder if someone could answer me this. how it's gonna be the conditions for camping and toillets available? it's the first time i'm going so i don't know... i hope you can give me an hand of this.

Re : Your questions about Hellfest!

Well there are toilets at the camping, but they have been quite bad last year, not cleaned enough so I just didn't use them.

But that is one of the big points they have been working on though, so next year it should be fine (but you will most probably need your toilet paper anyway )

There were toilets also in the festival grounds, otherwise there were clean toilets at mcdonalds not far from the camping site that's where i did my dirty business. Like you said the toilets should be better than last years toilets, instead of toilet paper think to bring baby wipes they are quite handy

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you should see the rather long list of stuff i have to bring with me!i'd recommened bringing anti-bac wipes or hand gel to use aftr you've used the porta' loo's else you'll eat your food with god knows what else

Martin, poor hygiene is a problem, but you cant exactly call the stands the most hygenic things, i saw some bloke making pizza's and he'd handle someones money (which is one of the most bacteria ridden things) and then without washing his hands he was touching everything he put on the pizza'a and their were flies over eveerything ...YUK i certainy didnt eat anything from the festival site after seeing that ...well except the icecream with came outta the machines, i woudlnt eat the cones though!!

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Thanks for this thread Jeff.

I am wondering if there will be maps of the festival area available to download/print from the Hellfest site?I'd be keen to get my hands on one showing how to access the car park - I'll be travelling by campervan. And being from Australia, it's probably going to be enough of a challenge getting used to driving on the other side of the road.

Re : Your questions about Hellfest!

No problem I'm here to help you all !

Yes, you'll find a map on the new site (which will open in January). I don't know if the map will be there so early, I don't think so because our tech-guys are still working on it but as soon as I will get it, I will post it on the site don't worry!

If I have time I will maybe try to do some road-books to find your way from Nantes to Clisson (and why not Paris....) we will see!

About the parking, there are several ones. Some in some fields, some other on the big road (really near of the fest) that we close for the week end.

Good luck to drive on the right hehe.

Btw, 20 aussies have already booked their pass... it will be a record this year lol

Re : Your questions about Hellfest!

Some additional hints given by sexy Jeff on the French part of the forum some days ago :

Queues to get (drink) tokens…The management is working it out so you don’t wait to have for too long in 2010.

Hellfest merchandise items were sold out very quickly in 2009…The stock will be increased in 2010 so that (almost) everyone can get his T-shirt.

Toilets : this was definitely the weak point in 2009…The management will make sure that the company in charge will fulfill its task with great efficiency in 2010. That company knows it failed in 2009 and knows what to do if does not want to lose its contract.

Headliners…Headliners will play earlier this year (a band will play after them) on Friday and Saturday. Kiss will close the festival on Sunday but the festival will finish a tiny bit earlier than the previous year.

What about pint glasses…That’s not going to happen in 2010.

Free earplugs…Many people seemed to have ignored that free earplugs were available even though 10.000 pairs of free ones were available (plus more efficient ones - buy not free ones) nearby the entrance. That should be the same in 2010 but there will be more communication about it.

Catering area…The management is thinking about dedicating an area where people could have more space with tables, benches etc.

Cashpoints within the arena…Much too complicated and banks are not very helpful on the issue so that’s not gonna happen in 2010 either.

TO YOU ALL :We will try to give you more details about these issues and others in the days to come.Until then : stay tunned !

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Btw,i must say that ppl behaved suprisingly well compared to wacken.I think they can handle a jack and coke stand, and keep the longdrink to the minimum.Mohitos,pina colada,long island icetea,voda redbull etc and it will be a easy job for staff:) diffrent kinds of beer and beer stands woud also be greatanother ting i will give credit for is that you can finn shade! And btw,there was insanly mutch weed smoking everywhere,ppl was rolling/smoking everywhere in the big tent.I dont know how it is with the deug politics in france.but in norway its 0 tolereance.Or do you watch between the fingers on this matters since its a big festivale?